This page is a service to all those who aren’t able to make each session, and even to those who aren’t able to make any of our meetings. We hope you will be able to keep pace with us as we make our way through the book, and if you can’t be physically present at our conversations, we invite you to participate “virtually” by posting your comments and questions here. Simply send us an e-mail to add your thoughts to this site.

We suggest, by the way, before you get to the review of the ground we’ve covered to date, that you might find it interesting to read, in the Pope’s own words, why he wrote Love & Responsibility. Click here to read an excerpt from his introduction to Love and Responsibility.

Summaries of Regular Meetings

• Our first, introductory session
• The Person as Subject and Object of Action
• Interpretation of the Sexual Urge
• Final Thoughts on Chapter One
• Love...as Attraction, Desire, Goodwill
• Reciprocity...and From Sympathy to Friendship
• Fr. Bob Connor on “Betrothed Love: Gift of Self”
• Sense Impression and Emotion...and Analysis of Sensuality
• Sentiment and Love...and The Problem of Integrating Love
• The Pope on “Membership of One Another”
• The Pope on “Choice and Responsibility
• The Commitment of Freedom...and The Education of Love
• Chastity and Resentment...and Carnal Concupiscence
• Subjectivism and Egoism...and The Structure of Sin
• The True Meaning of Chastity
• The Phenomenon of Sexual Shame and Its Interpretation
• The Law of the Absorption of Shame by Love & The Problem of Shamelessness
• Self Control and Objectivization
• Tenderness and Sensuality
• Monogamy and the Indissolubility of Marriage
• The Value of the Institution of Marriage
• Procreation and Parenthood
• Periodic Continence: Method and Interpretation
• The Concept of “Justice Towards the Creator”
• Mystical and Physical Virginity
• Click here for an easy-to-print page with all regular summaries

Summaries of Special Meetings

• Fr. Bob Connor on “The Gift of Self as Developed in Love and Responsibility”
• George Weigel: “Reflections of a Papal Biographer”
• Mass with Vienna's Christoph Cardinal Schonborn
• Fr. Bob Connor on “Betrothed Love: Gift of Self”
• Alice von Hildebrand on “The Loss of the Supernatural...”
• Dr. Frederick Zugibe on “The Wounds of Christ”
• Dr. Philip Mango on “The Theological and Psychological Dimensions of a Healthy Marriage”
• Fr. Koterski on Fr. Wojtyla on “The Metaphysics of Shame”
• Click here for an easy-to-print page with all special summaries

Audio Archive of Selected Meetings

• Fr. Bob Connor on “The Gift of Self as Developed in Love and Responsibility”
• Fr. Bob Connor on “Betrothed Love: The Gift of Self”
• Dr. Philip Mango on “The Theological and Psychological Dimensions of a Healthy Marriage”
• Nona Aguilar on “How Natural Family Planning Enriches Married Life”

Reading Guide for Selected Meetings

• Reading guide for Fr. Bob Connor’s talk on “Betrothed Love: The Gift of Self”